Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!akgub!usl!sigma From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spyridon Triantafyllopoulos) Newsgroups: net.social Subject: Re: Is anyone alive who also has my first name (Marnix)? Message-ID: <227@usl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 21:20:53 EST Article-I.D.: usl.227 Posted: Thu Jan 24 21:20:53 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jan-85 07:26:10 EST References: <147@pttesac.UUCP> Organization: USL, Lafayette, LA Lines: 30 >This is sort of a survey. In my whole life I've only heard >of one other person with my first name. He was an Indonesian >immigrant working in a store in Los Angeles. >My name comes from ancient greek and means "flickering star". >I was so told by the Dutch edition of Donald Duck magazine >when I was a little kid living in Holland. >I've often thought about giving up on my name and changing it >to something simpler and more American. But then my Dutch pride >takes over and I forget about such silly ideas. Is anyone out there with my LAST OR FIRST NAME??? WHAW, Spyridon A. Triantafyllopoulos GEE WIZ. I AM FROM GREECE AND I THINK THE DONALD DUCK EDITOR WAS WRING (WRONG :-)). -- Spiros Spiros Triantafyllopoulos <> USENET {ut-sally, akgua}!usl!sigma Computer Science Dept, USL <> CSNet TriantafyllopoulosS%usl@csnet-relay.ARPA "This file contains no opinions whatsoever" AS FOR A SIMPLER NAME, TRY *UNIX*, MULTRIX, UN*X, ETC. (JUST KIDDING) I CHOSE AS USER-ID AND NAME "SIGMA" WHICH IS A CALCULUS=FAMILIAR NAME. (MAKES EVERYONE THINK I"M A CALCULUS FREAK.